Cake saver

ABSTRACT

A cake saver device for preventing contaminants from coming into contact with a cake when blowing out one or more candles is presented. The cake saver device is useful for providing a stand/mount to hold the candles at a location away from the cake for preventing contaminants from spittle expectorated while blowing out the one or more candles from coming into contact with the cake. Also, the cake saver device provides peace of mind as a cost efficient and reusable device.

PRIORITY

This utility application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/306,997, filed on Feb. 4, 2022, the entirety is hereby incorporated by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to baking and serving cakes. More particularly, it relates a device to prevent cakes from being compromised when blowing out candles.

BACKGROUND

Cake is a form of sweet food made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, that is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

The most commonly used cake ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, butter or oil or margarine, a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients and flavorings include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts or dessert sauces (like pastry cream), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.

Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some are rich and elaborate, and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified so that even the most amateur of cooks may bake a cake.

One problem with current cake holders is that when a person blows out candles on a birthday, anniversary or other celebratory cake there is often spittle that is expectorated by the blower and can cause germs to fall onto the cake.

Therefore, and in light of the foregoing, it would be desirable to devise a protective covering for a cake when the cake has candles to prevent the spread of contaminants contained in spittle from being spread onto the cake. It would be further advantageous if the device was cost efficient, reusable and would help in keeping the candles spread apart prior to lighting the candles.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1A is an illustrated view of a top of a cake saver device.

FIG. 1B is an illustrated side view of the cake saver device shown in FIG. 1A.

FIG. 1C is an illustrated view of one or more hooks used with the side view shown in FIG. 1B to couple to the top of the case server device shown in FIG. 1A.

FIG. 2 is an illustrated view of a connected series of the cake saver device shown in FIG. 1A.

FIG. 3 is an illustrated view of a round shape of the top of the case saver device shown in FIG. 1A.

FIG. 4 is an illustrated view of a hexagonal shape of the cake saver device shown in FIG. 1A.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The phrases “in one embodiment,” “in various embodiments,” “in some embodiments,” and the like are used repeatedly. Such phrases do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment. The terms “comprising,” “having,” and “including” are synonymous, unless the context dictates otherwise. Such terms do not generally signify a closed list.

“Above,” “adhesive,” “affixing,” “any,” “around,” “both,” “bottom,” “by,” “comprising,” “consistent,” “customized,” “enclosing,” “friction,” “in,” “labeled,” “lower,” “magnetic,” “marked,” “new,” “nominal,” “not,” “of,” “other,” “outside,” “outwardly,” “particular,” “permanently,” “preventing,” “raised,” “respectively,” “reversibly,” “round,” “square,” “substantial,” “supporting,” “surrounded,” “surrounding,” “threaded,” “to,” “top,” “using,” “wherein,” “with,” or other such descriptors herein are used in their normal yes-or-no sense, not as terms of degree, unless context dictates otherwise.

Reference is now made in detail to the description of the embodiments as illustrated in the drawings. While embodiments are described in connection with the drawings and related descriptions, there is no intent to limit the scope to the embodiments disclosed herein. On the contrary, the intent is to cover all alternatives, modifications and equivalents. In alternate embodiments, additional devices, or combinations of illustrated devices, may be added to, or combined, without limiting the scope to the embodiments disclosed herein.

Referring first to FIG. 1A, FIG. 1B and FIG. 1C, an illustrated view of a cake saver device 100 for preventing contaminants from coming into contact with a cake when blowing out one or more candles is presented. The cake saver device 100 is useful for providing a cover-like device for preventing contaminants from spittle expectorated while blowing out the one or more candles from coming into contact with the cake. Also, the cake saver device 100 provides peace of mind at a cost efficient and reusable device.

The cake saver device 100 is preferably rectangular in shape, however other shapes are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, round, hexagonal, etc. The cake saver device 100 preferably has a height of three-eighths (⅜) inch; however, other heights are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, one-half inch (½″), one-fourth inch (¼″), etc. The cake saver device 100 is preferably made of a poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) material, however other materials are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, aluminum, steel, etc.

The cake saver device 100 has a top 110, a plurality of sides 120, 130, 140, 150 and a hook device 161, 162, 163, 164. The top 110 of the cake saver device 100 has a plurality of horizontal bars 111 and a plurality of vertical bars 112, thereby creating a plurality of holes 113 for placing items onto a cake such as candles, number candles, etc.

An outside wall 114 of the top 110 of the cake saver device 100 is preferably three sixty-fourth inch in thickness ( 3/64″), however other thicknesses are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, one-thirty-seconds inch ( 1/32″), one-sixteenth inch ( 1/16″), etc. An inner wall 115 of the top 110 of the cake saver device 100 is preferably three sixty-fourth inch in thickness ( 3/64″), however other thicknesses are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, one-thirty-seconds inch ( 1/32″), one-sixteenth inch ( 1/16″), etc. The top 110 of the cake saver device 100 is preferably four inches by eight inches (4″×8″) in size, however other sizes are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, two inches by four inches (2″×4″), six inches by eight inches (6″×8″), and a height of up to 6 inches, etc.

The sides 120, 130, 140, 150 are removably coupled to the top 110 of the cake saver device 100. Each of the sides 120, 130, 140, 150 has at least one of the hooks 190. The hooks 190 couple the sides 120, 130, 140, 150 to a cake pan, not shown, and to the top 110 of the cake saver device 100.

Moving now to FIG. 2 , FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 , an illustrated view of the top of the cake saver device 100 shown in FIG. 1A is shown in various, although not limited to, shapes, such as one or more connected cells 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, shown in FIG. 2 , a round cell configuration 300, shown in FIG. 3 and a rectangular cell configuration 400, shown in FIG. 4 . One using the cake saver device 100 would determine the cell configuration depending on the cake pan being used.

In the numbered clauses below, specific combinations of aspects and embodiments are articulated in a shorthand form such that (1) according to respective embodiments, for each instance in which a “component” or other such identifiers appear to be introduced (with “a” or “an,” e.g.) more than once in a given chain of clauses, such designations may either identify the same entity or distinct entities; and (2) what might be called “dependent” clauses below may or may not incorporate, in respective embodiments, the features of “independent” clauses to which they refer or other features described above.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the foregoing specific exemplary processes and/or devices and/or technologies are representative of more general processes and/or devices and/or technologies taught elsewhere herein, such as in the claims filed herewith and/or elsewhere in the present application.

The features described with respect to one embodiment may be applied to other embodiments or combined with or interchanged with the features of other embodiments, as appropriate, without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A cake saver device for preventing contaminants from coming into contact with a cake when blowing out one or more candles, the device comprising: a top, the top having a shape, an outside wall, an inner wall, a plurality of horizontal bars and a plurality of vertical bars; and one or more sides, each of the one or more sides having at least one of a plurality of hooks, wherein the hooks being for coupling the one or more sides to the top and the hooks being for coupling the one or more sides to the cake pan.
 2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the top having a round shape.
 3. The device of claim 1, wherein the top of the device has a size of four inches by eight inches (4″×8″).
 4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the outside wall has a thickness of three-sixteenths inch ( 3/16″).
 5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device being made of a poly-vinyl chloride material.
 6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device has a height of three-eighths (⅜) inch.
 7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device has a rectangular shape.
 8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device is made of an aluminum material.
 9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the inner wall of the top having a thickness of three-sixty-fourths ( 3/64) inch.
 10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the top of the device has a size of two inches by four inches (2″×4″).
 11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the top of the device has a size of six inches by eight inches (6″×8″). 